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Dominos Australia has taken a controversial step in having five of its stores go cashless for pizza pickups in the name of reducing pickup time and queues. Dubbing the new system "tap and take" Dominos hopes that it will reduce waiting times, increase convenience, increase safety and reduce costs involved with handling cash so that they can "remain digitally agile and continue to meet consumer demands". The trial is not winning any points with Libertarians who believe that the government is pushing businesses to crack down on the cash economy with concerns about the government taking a big brother attitude to monitoring business cashflow. While a number of businesses in Australia are cashless, removing the option tends to put customers off with a number of businesses just bearing the loss of profit from customers who prefer to pay with cash.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:09AM (2 children)
And how's that relevant, mate?
I mean, relevant to the "tragedy" of Dominos Australia going cashless?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:59AM (1 child)
It's probably relevant to his point because we (AU) never had to worry about people here accepting our money.
The yanks originally had a bunch of different state currencies, so when they went federal they passed laws saying the federal money was good everywhere. I don't think they were even considering electronic systems, it was to prevent people demanding specific gold or silver coins. Forcing a cash option is really just a side effect. (Not really relevant to Domino's in Oz, but he's making the point that the cashless society will be more difficult to force in the USA because of those laws.)
He's also wrong about accepting for all debts. That might be true for government debts, but there are denomination limits for private debts. You can't force a vendor to sell you a $20,000 car for 2000000 pennies. They can accept if they want to, but you can't force it. You also can't force a street vendor to cash a $1000.00 bill for a sausage-inna-bun.
(Score: 3, Informative) by helel on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:23AM
As I understand it cash is good for all debts - A business can refuse to accept cash for goods or services before a transaction but after the goods or services have been provided and you have incurred a debt they cannot reject cash. However, they are not required to make change, simply accept the offered cash to clear the debt. Hence, you may indeed be able to force a street vender to accept a 1K note for a sausage-inna-bun but they don't have to offer you anything other then the already provided dog in exchange.